Foreign News: Autopsy of a Hero

"His name will live in history," wrote King George V at the death of
Colonel T. E. Lawrence. Soon afterward, in a biographical sketch,
Winston Churchill added: "That is true; it will live in English
letters; it will live in the traditions of the Royal Air Force; it will
live in the annals of war and in the legends of Arabia."

Lawrence, the pint-sized, introverted Oxford scholar who rose from an
obscure post in the Civil Service to lead the desert Arabs in revolt
against their Turkish oppressors, was just the kind of lonely, romantic
figure of danger the British needed in...